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Everybody was so tired that we turned in at once, even 

 ignoring an excellent punch which had been brewed in honour 

 of our arrival at land. 



But it was only a temporary anchorage which we had found. 

 It was too exposed to leave the ship in, and as soon as we had 

 rested we again set to work towing with the boats ahead, now 



THE NATIVE CAMP ON KODIAK ISLAND. 



and then sailing a little or kedging. But, although all hands 

 worked hard, it took us all day to advance a few miles, and it 

 was not till late in the evening of June 7 that we came to a 

 good anchorage. Mr. Ditlevsen was feeling a little better, but 

 we had now another man on the sick list, Mr. Edwards, who 

 was down with a serious attack of malaria. He was ill during 

 most of our stay on Kodiak, and before we left Mr. Leffingwell 

 and myself had made up our minds that we could not take a 

 man suffering from malaria into the Arctic, and that he would 

 have to be sent home from Port Clarence. 



The natives, whom we vainly tried to take with us as guides, 

 had told us that it was too early in the season for hunting 

 bears, but of course there was a chance of our finding one all 

 the same, and in the hope that this might be the case, Dr. Howe, 

 Storkersen, and I started on Friday, June 8. 



Mr. Leffingwell stayed behind to take some observations and 



